The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-09-24

Fnnted petitions to Governor Oglesby, OF
Illinois, appealing for a Communication OF SEN
tence for the condemned Anarchists are beng
sent to all parts of the country.
The Hendricks Club of St. Louis has invi-
ted the Iroquois Club of Chicago to partici-
pate with them in their serenade and recep-
tion to President Cleveland on the occasion
of his visit to that city in October.
The English ironclad, Trafalgar, was launch.
ed at London on Tuesday. She is the largest
ironclad ahoat, and her side armor is twenty
inches thick. Her engines are 10000 horse
power, and she carries twelve heavy guns.
Mark Skinner, of Chicago, died at Manches-
ter. Vermont, Friday night last aged "A years.
As President of the Sanitary Commission he
collected and distributed S5,000,0O0 to sick
and wounded soldiers during the civil war.
Senator Cockerell and Walter Young, of
St Joseph, Missouri, called upon President
Cleveland on Tuesday and induced him to
extend his proposed Western trip so as to
include St. Joseph in the list CT cities to be
visited.
The receipts of the Government this month,
so far, exceed the expenditures by Sl5,21s,
| 26O. From this must be made deductions
| on account of the bonds purchased, which do
not appear in the statement until the end OF
the month.
A passenger train on the Atlantic and
Pacific Railroad was wrecked near Needles,
California, on Friday of last week. The en-
CINE and portion of the train went through
bridge. 1t is reported that about forty
people were killed and injured.
According to telegram from Columbus,
Ohio, circular, dated New York, and pub
lished both in German and English, was
quietly distributed there Monday by the
Anarchists. 1t calls upon the working men,
with inhammatory rhetoric, to prevent the
hanging of the condemned Anarchists in Chi
cago.
David Peyton, who several months ago was
released from the Maryland penitentiary and
taken to Massachusetts, where he had escaped
from prison, to serve ont his original sentence
: has been pardoned by the Massachusetts, au.
thorities His conduct in the Maryland
prison aided him greatly in securing pardon.
His real name is Nathaniel Jones.
At the annual reunion of the Sixteenth
Connecticut Regiment, held in Hartford on
: Saturday, there was received back the regi-
mental guidon captured in 1864 by the Second
Alabama Regiment. Resolutions were adopt
ed '.full of love and fraternal greeting, u
: which, with letter of a similar nature from
Colonel Cheney of the Sixteenth Connect
cut, will be forwarded to the End Alabama.
, Near Forest, Ohio, at four O'Clock las
! Monday morning the first section of Pitts
burg, Chicago and Fort Wayne freight trair
broke down and the second section ran into
it, killing John Bouch, fireman. Several car
of oil In the second section caught fire, and {
car loaded with dynamite exploded. destroy
! several cars, tearing up the track and injurinl
ing the engineer of the second section and /
} tramp.
e The Chicago Times says that in the Genera
t Assembly of the Knights of Labor. which will
a meet in Minneapolis on October 3d. the rad
t ical element intend to introduce resolution
It denouncing the decision of the Supreme Cour
. of Illinois in the Anarchist cases, and deman
1 ding the interference of the Supreme Cour
S of the United States. The radicals CLAIM
f that they can carry this resolution througl
S the Assembly.
!; A gale from the northeast on Saturda
night caused great damage at Portugal Cove
! Newfoundland. Many boats were drivel
{ ashore from their moorings, and others wer
;, dashed against the cliffs and destroyed. A
: Placentia several craft we're driven seawar
and have not since been heard from. A
u Bonavista all sorts of wreckage is strew
IT along the Shore Twenty boats were drive
ashore and seven sunk at their moorings
!. The loss will be heavy. A man named Learn
" ed was blown into the water from whai
. and drowned.
l. Justice Miller, of the United States Suprem
IS Court, to whom the Anarchists propose t
d to present their case, said on Tuesday, in a
y interview: '.Such case is usually taken be
d fore one of the Justices, and, as arule. befor
N the Justice of the district. In this cas-
IS Justice Harlan should be seen, He is not |
a Chicago now, but in Washington, where b
a will be for some time. 1t is very rare tha
l. cases Of criminal nature come before til
re Supreme Court, and, when they do, they al
y, usually cases where violation of governmer
ID laws are charged. 1t is very rare, indeed
IS that the Supreme Court ever touches cas-
1t decided by State Court. The Anarchists
t, get their cases before the Supreme Cour
h must prove that the constitutional rights
ID the prisoners or the Federal laws were broke
he in the trial l consider the case the mo
l. important tried in this country for year
y These fellows seem to have made Chicae
le their headquarters. They have more frient
Ip here than anywhere else in the country.
y Gen. Roger A. Pryor, of New York, has bee
lg retained as counsel for the Anarchists an
re will at once prepare an appeal to the Supren
in Court.